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Second Edition. R. Ford Harper dustjacket art. Collection of touching and humorous stories about every-day Americans. Very Good in Poor dustjacket, lacking lower half of spine, few inch chip to top rear panel, and a long horizontal closed tear to front panel.Item #17870

First Edition. Adventure novel of Oklahoma frontier life and basis for the 1931 RKO photoplay motion picture starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, nearly centimeter deep chipping at spine ends, few shallow chips at flap corners.Item #22397

First Edition. Adventure novel of Oklahoma frontier life and basis for the 1931 R.K.O. motion picture starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, small chip at lower spine end, few short closed tears.Item #24627

First Edition, Advance Review Copy in original printed wrappers. Adventure novel of Oklahoma frontier life and basis for the 1931 RKO photoplay motion picture starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne. Very Good plus in wraps, few small edge chips and modest wear, partially split at front spine edge.Item #19069

First Edition, Advance Review Copy in original printed wrappers. Adventure novel of Oklahoma frontier life and basis for the 1931 RKO photoplay motion picture starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne. Very Good in wraps, modest wear, some nicking to lower spine end, bit of darkening to lower spine area.Item #20216

First Edition. Fiction book, or, a collection of novelettes including titles such as “Classified,” “Perfectly Independent,” “Every Other Thursday,” and “Consider the Lilies.” Basis for the 1928 black and white Fox Film of the same title directed by John G. Blystone and starring Madge Bellamy and Louise Dresser about “ stage-actress mother and her daughter in a battle-of-wills in a "don't do this, daughter" and "don't do that, daughter" story of youthful folly and over-zealous parental devotion.” Very Good in a Good only dustjacket with wraparound dustjacket art, with several large chips, large tears to spine edges and jacket panels, and spine faded.Item #18641

First Edition. Collection of novelettes by American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. The title novelette, “Mother Knows Best,” was the basis for the 1928 black and white Fox Film of the same name, directed by John G. Blystone and starring Madge Bellamy and Louise Dresser. Pictoral endpapers and wraparound dustjacket art. Very Good but for cracking to show webbing at rear inside hinge, small bookstore sticker to inside rear cover, in a Very Good dustjacket with spine faded, centimeter deep chip to top edge of spine, few smaller chips and short closed tears.Item #18897

First Edition. James Montgomery Flagg dustjacket art and illustrations. An Uncommon Ferber title. Jock McChestesney, just out of college, serene in his English fitting suit and the perfection of his shirt, tie, collar and scarf-pin. Jack went looking for a job with an advertising agency. Jock dazzles them with his keen business sense and exemplary work ethic, but goes overboard on the charm and ends up alienating clients, unnerving his boss, and even patronizing his business-savvy mother. Ferber, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories featuring Emma McChesney: a smart, stylish, divorced mother who in a mere twelve years rose from stenographer to traveling sales representative to business manager and partner of the T. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and top front panel, some fairly small internal chips at lower spine area ('mended' at verso with clear tape), modest soiling and wear.Item #32696

First Edition. Ferber's picturesque romance of 1880's New Orleans and Saratoga served as the basis for the 1945 black and white film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Near Fine, ownership signature at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge chipping, modest edge wear.Item #23209

First Edition. Ferber's picturesque romance of 1880's New Orleans and Saratoga served as the basis for the 1945 black and white film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Fine bright copy in exceptionally bright Fine dustjacket. Scarce in such attractive condition.Item #5792

First Edition. Ferber's picturesque romance of 1880's New Orleans and Saratoga served as the basis for the 1945 black and white film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Fine in bright Near Fine-Fine dustjacket, small piece of scotch tape at verso. Scarce in such attractive condition.Item #8994

First Edition. Ferber's picturesque romance of 1880's New Orleans and Saratoga served as the basis for the 1945 black and white film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Near Fine in attractive almost Near Fine dustjacket.Item #19996

First Edition. Ferber's picturesque romance of 1880's New Orleans and Saratoga served as the basis for the 1945 black and white film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Near Fine in attractive almost Near Fine dustjacket.Item #20316

First Edition in binding with 'Book of the Month Club Selection' stamped at spine. Basis for the Universal Picture starring Laura La Plante and Joseph Schildkraut. Wrap-around dustjacket art. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, chipping at spine ends and flap corners.Item #34952

Seventeenth Printing. An early printing of Ferber's extremely difficult to find Pulitzer Prize novel of a correct young man living in Chicago's fashionable North Shore, in the original publisher's dustjacket with "145th Thousand" plug at lower front panel. Near Fine, bookplate at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends, lower front panel and few flap corners, three inch closed tear at front spine edge, few other short closed tears mended with archival tape at verso.Item #21856